Flier

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One, such as an insect or bird, that flies with wings.
  • n. The pilot of an aircraft.
  • n. A passenger in an aircraft: special fares for business fliers.
  • n. A pamphlet or circular for mass distribution.
  • n. A step in a straight stairway.
  • n. Informal A daring venture.
  • n. Australian An exceptionally swift kangaroo.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Something that flies.
  • n. Someone who pilots or rides in an airplane.
  • n. A leaflet, often for advertising.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
  • n. A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
  • n. See Flyer, n., 5.
  • n. See Flyer, n., 4.
  • n. An aëroplane or flying machine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That which flies: as, the bird was a high flier.
  • n. Specifically One who or that which moves swiftly; an animal, a person, or a thing that exhibits or is capable of great speed: as, he drove a span of fliers; the locomotive was a flier.
  • n. One who flees; a fugitive; a runaway.
  • n. Some part of a machine or mechanism having a rapid motion.
  • n. A single step or a straight flight of steps or stairs; in the plural, stairs composed of straight flights: opposed to winding stairs.
  • n. A financial venture; a speculative investment: applied to a purchase of stock by one not a regular buyer, in hope of immediate profit: as, to take a flier in Wall street.
  • n. A small handbill. Also called dodger.
  • n. One of the fresh-water sunfishes, Centrarchus macropterus, found in the southern United States.
  • n. An apparatus attached to a printing-machine, usually a gang of parallel rods worked by a rocking shaft, which seizes each sheet as it is printed and conveys it to the delivery-table.
  • n. One of the two lower-most leaves of a tobacco-plant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who travels by air
  • n. someone who operates an aircraft
  • n. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    traveler    traveller   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    fly    flyer   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    runaway    fugitive    aviator    aviatrix   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dyer    Meier    Meyer    Trier    acquire    attire    briar    brier    buyer    byer   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fliers    flyer    submersible    skimmer    glider    airship    warship    flitter    copter    negotiator